Top Notch Furley Page Lawyers Promoted to Partners

Two top ranking lawyers at south east law firm, Furley Page - recommended by Chambers UK and Legal 500 - have been promoted to partners.

Susan Jennings, 35, of Whitstable, heads the corporate team at the Thames Gateway office at Chatham. With a background advising a broad range of UK and multi-national companies – notably in the automotive, manufacturing and distribution sectors, she has extensive corporate and commercial law experience from working with individuals on business start-ups to restructuring and sales or acquisitions of multi-million pound companies.

She commented: “I have always wanted to work for Furley Page, given its reputation for excellence. The firm is committed to providing a quality service to its clients and part of my role is to promote the fact that we can offer specialist advice to businesses as well as individuals in a friendly and commercially pragmatic way.”

Anne Blenkinsop, 45, of Hythe, is a specialist in the family team at Canterbury. She has wide-ranging experience in dealing with all aspects of relationship breakdown – particularly involving issues over children; separation and pre-nuptial agreements, and financial and cohabitation disputes.

She has a special interest in the area of financial disputes between cohabiting couples (including same sex couples) and is developing a niche practice.

Anne said: “I am proud to become a partner in Furley Page and also be part of a fantastic family law team which has doubled in size since I joined in 2004 and is renowned for the high calibre of its work and expertise in its field.”

Peter Hawkes, senior partner at Furley Page, added: “Susan and Anne have both have made an outstanding contribution to developing our business and enhancing the reputation of the firm.

“These promotions to partnership status will strengthen our teams in two of our most important areas – namely corporate and family. I am pleased that we are able to make appointments in the private and business client fields, reflecting our commitment to expand the firm across a diverse range of disciplines.”

Furley Page Launches Conveyancing Team at Chatham

Kent Law Firm Furley Page – recommended by the Legal 500 and Chambers – is expanding its Thames Gateway offices in Chatham, adding a residential property team to its wide-ranging client services.

Explaining the decision at a time when the effects of the credit crunch are being felt UK-wide, partner and head of the Chatham office James Pigott says that the long-term prospects for the Medway property market are “very exciting”.

He added: “The Medway population is set to rise from 250,000 to 300,000 in the next 20 years and the average house price in the area is still significantly lower than the national average.

“There has already been significant investment in the area and that is set to continue. The Medway Renaissance Programme is intended to create 16,000 new homes and 20,000 new jobs with 1,500 new homes and 3,000 jobs in the centre of Chatham and on the waterfront alone.

“The addition of an experienced specialist domestic conveyancing team to our existing teams at Chatham will enable us to provide a high quality local service for those looking to move now and in the future.”

Heading up the new team is 33 year old residential property manager Tracey Robins, of Rainham, who is a fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives.

Among her specialist areas are the acquisition and disposal of freehold and leasehold properties including ‘buy to let’, unregistered land, residential tenancies, remortgaging, joint ownership agreements, shared ownership and staircasing, freehold sale and purchase of pieces of land, and equity transfers. She also undertakes work on behalf of developers such as site assembly and acquisition, plot sales, conditional contracts and option agreements.

In her leisure time Tracey takes a keen interest in wildlife and conservation; is an enthusiastic cross-country walker – enjoying the Cornish landscape whenever she gets the chance – and swims and reads.

Joining Tracey is residential conveyancer Deborah Trott, aged 43, of Iwade, Sittingbourne whose specialist property work includes acquisitions and disposal of freehold and leasehold property, remortgaging, equity transfers and shared ownership and staircasing.

Her free time is spent playing golf (at Sittingbourne and Milton Regis Golf Club); running and reading.

For further information contact the property law team on 01634 828277 or email info@furleypage.co.uk